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Public interest disclosure

Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service has a commitment to ensuring the highest level of ethics in our organisation. As such, we support public interest disclosures.

Public interest disclosures mean the disclosure of information specified in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 (sections 12 and 13) and made to an appropriate public sector entity that has the responsibility or power to take appropriate action about the information disclosed or to provide an appropriate remedy.

Gold Coast Health's commitment

Gold Coast Health encourages any person who considers that they have witnessed wrongdoing to come forward and make a disclosure.

Every employee has an ethical responsibility to disclose wrongdoing and any disclosure is in accordance with Gold Coast Health's ethical culture and in particular, acting with integrity. Section 9 of the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994 places an obligation on all Gold Coast Health employees to disclose fraud, corruption and maladministration. Further to this, the obligation to report wrongdoing is reflected in Principle 1 of the Queensland Public Service Code of Conduct.